Johnathan Swift author of A MODEST PROPOSAL
Blog Number 3 Assignment : Who is the "proposer" Who is the audience? Explain
Proposer - To offer or suggest for consideration, acceptance, or action.
Audience - The act of hearing or attending to.
In A MODEST PROPOSAL the proposer of the proposal would be Johnathan Swift he wrote this proposal to Englishmen that charged large sums of Money making it hard for the english people. When he wrote this proposal he suggested some crazy ideas such as selling irish infants when they hit the age of one. He stated that this would give them Irish a new source of income, and the English a new food product that will increase their income. He also said that selling babies for food would decrease the amount of Catholic Irish.
This would be the same as myself writing a proposal to my english teacher the person writing would be the proposer and my english teacher who is reading this would be the audience. The proposer, and audience is very simple to understand.
